Marilynn E. Doenges

Nurse's Pocket Guide

Updated with NANDA-I Nursing Diagnoses 2024-2026 The all-in-one care planning resource! Here’s the step-by-step guidance you need to develop individualized plans of care while also honing your analytical, critical-thinking, and clinical judgment skills. You’ll find over 160 care plans in all, covering acute, community, and home-care settings across the life span. Each plan features… Client assessment database for each medical condition Complete listings of nursing diagnoses organized by priority Diagnostic studies with explanations of the reason for the test and what the results mean Actions and interventions with comprehensive rationales NANDA, NIC, and NOC’s most recent guidelines and terminology Evidence-based citations Index of nursing diagnoses and their associated disorders A must for nursing students!“This book has helped me significantly in nursing school. I definitely recommend this book for nursing students. The book is organized nicely … makes it easy to find nursing diagnoses and rationales.”—Online Reviewer Nursing school life saver.“A great book. It not only helps with writing care plans, but it’s also fantastic to use as reference on clinical days. Scan through it to look up your Pt’s ailments and you will always sound prepared when your instructor is asking you a million of questions.”—Natalia G., Online Reviewer Life saver!“This book makes it so much easier to create care plans!! I wish I would’ve bought this in the beginning of nursing school.”—Online Reviewer New! Section on recognizing patient cues, highlighted by a clinical judgment icon, which guides the nurse in determining the appropriate nursing diagnosis, generating solutions, and taking action New! Online appendix for instructors maps nursing concepts to care plans for concept-based curricula Updated! All care plans updated to ensure they reflect current treatment recommendations Updated! Diagnostic Test tables reflect state-of-the-art diagnostic regimes, the most recent advances in testing and pharmacological therapies Care plans focus on clinical judgment and individualized care for clients across the lifespan and have an emphasis on evidence-based practice. A client assessment database for each medical condition for quick review and retrieval of information.

Identify interventions to plan, individualize, and document care. Updated with the latest diagnoses and interventions from NANDA-I 2021-2023, here’s the resource you’ll turn to again and again to select the appropriate diagnosis and to plan, individualize, and document care for more than 800 diseases and disorders. Only in the Nursing Diagnosis Manual will you find for each diagnosis…defining characteristics presented subjectively and objectively - sample clinical applications to ensure you have selected the appropriate diagnoses - prioritized action/interventions with rationales - a documentation section, and much more!Includes:Assessment tools to help you select the appropriate diagnosis.Alphabetized monographs for hundreds of diseases and disorders reflecting all specialty areas.Associated nursing diagnoses that are presented by priority and written as client problem/need statements.NIC and NOC linkages with each diagnosis.Unique presentation of action/invention by priority with rationales…with icons for cultural • collaborative • diagnostic studies • medications • community/home health • pediatric/geriatric/lifespan.Documentation section that emphasizes the importance of what and why.Taxonomy information that defines the domain in which the nursing diagnosis belongs, along with the date the nursing diagnosis was approved or revised.Pediatric considerations in the monographs, where appropriate.References to support evidenced-based practice.Detachable, laminated, pocket-minder bookmark on the inside back cover.New & Updated! The latest diagnoses and updated interventions from NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions and Classification 2021-2023, 12th Edition, including 46 new diagnoses and 67 revised diagnoses, the most current NANDA-I terminology, and labels from NIC and NOC that link content to nursing diagnosis, and statistic data.Updated & Expanded! The most recent evidence-based practice research for interventions and rationales.Revised! Streamlined preface that focuses on how to use the book.Added & Revised! Nursing interventions based on current practice.

The perfect pocket guide makes care planning easier.This quick-reference tool has exactly what you need to select the appropriate diagnosis to plan your patients’ care effectively. The 16th Edition features all the latest nursing diagnoses and updated interventions from NANDA-I 2021-2023.Alphabetized listing of nursing diagnoses from NANDA-I 2021-2023, covering more than 400 diseases/disorders.Actions/interventions uniquely organized by priority with selected rationales.Icons within the prioritized interventions for acute care, collaboration, community/home care/cultural considerations, diagnostic studies, medications, and lifespan considerations.NIC and NOC labels at the end of each diagnosis.Defining characteristics presented subjectively and objectively.Documentation section that focuses on the other steps of the nursing process, reminding students of the importance and necessity of recording each step.Index with hundreds of diseases/disorders with prioritized associated nursing diagnoses.Detachable, laminated, pocket-minder bookmark on the inside back cover.New & Updated! The latest diagnoses and updated interventions from NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions and Classification 2021-2023, 12th Edition, including 46 new diagnoses and 67 revised diagnoses, the most current NANDA-I terminology, and labels from NIC and NOC that link content to nursing diagnosis, and statistic data.Revised! Streamlined preface that focuses on how to use the book.

Updated with NANDA-I Nursing Diagnoses 2018-20. The all-in-one care planning resource!Here's the step-by-step guidance you need to develop individualized plans of care while also honing your critical-thinking and analytical skills. You'll find about 160 care plans in all, covering acute, community, and home-care settings across the life span. Each plan features: Client assessment database for each medical conditionComplete listings of nursing diagnoses organized by priorityDiagnostic studies with explanations of the reason for the test and what the results meanActions and interventions with comprehensive rationalesNANDA, NIC, and NOC's most recent guidelines and terminologyEvidence-based citationsIndex of nursing diagnoses and their associated disordersInstructor resources:Ebook, medical/surgical, psychiatric, maternal/newborn care plans, nursing diagnosis arranged by Maslow's Heirarchy, previous edition resourcesStudent resources:Disorder look-up, interactive assessment tool, concept map generator, care plan template, bibliography, medical/surgical, psychiatric, maternal/newborn care plans